ABSTRACT
Tourism has grown in leaps and bounds since the democratic transition in 1994, which heralded the end of apartheid in South Africa. The growth of tourism, spectacular in its development, and now regarded as the new gold, is South Africa’s number one export. The growth of tourism has also been associated with the growth of special interest tourism that has seen the emergence of sports tourism, events tourism, religious tourism and health tourism. South Africa has hosted numerous sporting events such as the 1995 Rugby World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. South African cities host several festivals ranging from sporting to cultural festivals. The plethora of academic gaze on events tourism is primarily urban with scant attention to typically less glamorous events. The celebration of Ramadan in the Bo Kaap is a religious Muslim orientated event, whose legacy resulted in the declaration of heritage protection for the Bo Kaap. The second event gazed under the theoretical framework of Community-Based Tourism is the yearly celebrations at Komjekejeke, a celebration of Ndebele culture. The event legacy has been the upgrading of the infrastructure and creation of an enabling environment to consume Ndebele culture.
